La Revolucion de Los Claveles

Every writer is a conjurer who hides one, two or more secret stories up his sleeve. And although magicians don't reveal their secrets, this book intends to unravel them for you. Stick your nose in the hat and you will see instead of rabbits, delicate poets who dedicated themselves to killing French soldiers in their spare time, holy priests with seventeen children, writers who saw jail, the wall, who took their own lives, nuns whose relics Tanos, the Marvel villain, will put in his hand to end a third of the living universe, novelists who made astral charts and, to top it all, were more accurate than Nostradamus... In short, a whole catalog of secrets, curiosities and -why deny it- morbidities that will excite the interest of the most reluctant to bombastic words like poetry and classics. This 'Secret History of Spanish Literature' is the ideal way to learn without effort. To delve into the main names of our literature without getting bored or fed up. To know the ins and outs of our best literature with ease and without boasting of erudition, which is often a difficult obstacle to overcome. Daniel Cotta Lobato puts within reach of the reader anecdotes and events that, in spite of their apparent lightness, gather the essence of a history as exciting as it is engrundiosa. If it takes you two days to read this book, great. If it takes you two months, even better, because each chapter will have led you to browse through a book or type in a search on the Internet. But if you come back to it for a lifetime, this book will have fulfilled its purpose, which is to make you open other books that make you open other lives that make you open other worlds. All shifting, colorful and dazzling. So get ready and shake the kaleidoscope. I give you the hat. You put your hand in and start pulling out rabbits'. DANIEL COTTA LOBATO